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My first crash: Tiff Needell

My first crash was rather embarrassing really. It was at 10mph. Actually, it was at 5mph. I was looking at a girl with a short skirt down Weybridge High Street and I went straight into the back of the car in front. The traffic had just stopped dead.

To make matters worse, the car had a towbar, which went straight through my radiator. I then had to drive home very quickly so as not to run out of water.

I’ve had all kinds of bumps on roundabouts. But I haven’t had one of those for 20 years. I had all manner of crashes when I was driving cars for a living, but I still like to say that I’ve never not brought home the car that I went out in.

Even though one crash did involve asking Nelson Piquet and Derek Warwick to help dig me out of a ditch.